 Alfresco Open Air Culinary Systems is based in Southern California, and all their products are made and manufactured in the U.S.A. using the finest grade materials. Throughout the years, Alfresco has set the standard for innovation in the outdoor kitchen appliance market. No other manufacturer can lay claim to more industry firsts and exclusive products than Alfresco.
We are therefor very happy to announce a new collaboration together with Alfresco Grills. Together with Matt Haines of Fusion Marketing and Kenneth Hoffman of Hoffman Film, we spent two days in Utah shooting How-to videos for Alfresco grills. We worked closely with Matt to design a good script that would help new owners quickly get up to speed on their products while at the same time highlighting the amazing cooking ability of their outdoor cooking equipment and sharing some great tips and tricks. We then spent two very intense days at beautiful location in Salt Lake City with a great Alfresco setup. The first day we focused on the intros, outros and all the voice-over and on the second day we shifted focus to shooting the food, the close-ups, and the b-roll footage. In total we covered the following features:
We would like to thank Alfresco Grills and Matt Haines for the opportunity. We had a ton of fun and learnt so much about the work going into the making of a project like this. 
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 Our Big Swede BBQ Badass Texas Boost will be in stock and available for order on August 2nd. We are very excited about our fifth rub, because we love the versatility of the flavors. The rub is a classic Central Texas SPG Blend (Salt, Pepper, Garlic) but with some secret ingredients that we think you will love. The flavors of Central Texas are what made us fall in love with BBQ in the first place. There is something very pure about the simplicity of this style of BBQ. If you’ve heard about the German and Czech butchers who started Texas barbecue, that’s the story of Central Texas barbecue. Meat markets in towns like Lockhart, Luling, Taylor, Elgin, and Bastrop sold meat from whole beef carcasses. In the days before refrigeration, they needed something to do with the meat that didn’t sell. They could either smoke the whole muscles to prolong their sellable life, or they could grind the meat and stuff it into casings for smoked sausage. Barbecue here is done in offset smokers fueled with oak, usually post oak. It’s a wood prevalent in the region. Meat seasoned simply with salt, black pepper, and sometimes other spices is laid within a smoker chamber, and the fire is built in a firebox to the side. Then you let it go low and slow until the tough meat break down and flavor heaven appear.  We wanted to create a rub that is loaded with those Central Texas BBQ style flavors, so we packed the rub with tellicherry black pepper, sea salt, garlic and a few secret ingredients that we cant tell you about. Maybe except that one is Beef Stock because we wanted to have maximum beef flavor. We also created a unique label where our Mascot, Hogvar the Viking, instead of the his traditional viking gear now wears the outfit of a cowpoke.
SACC consists of 20 regional Chambers across the U.S. represented by SACC-USA, the umbrella organization, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Sweden. Their mission is to facilitate and support trade, commerce, and investment between the nations and help Swedish companies find the right partners in the USA – and vice versa. The Executive Forum is held in beautiful House of Sweden in Washington D.C. The roster of speakers is getting more impressive by the day. The latest additions are Marc Lotter, Director of Strategic Communications for President Trump’s 2020 Presidential Campaign, and Dr. R. David Edelman, Director at MIT and former Special Advisor to President Barack Obama on Economy and Technology Policies. In the evening, there is a dinner hosted by the Swedish ambassador in the US. We will be there for the evening recepion and grill some amazing lambchops and iberico secretos in collaboration with the Executive Chef at the Swedish Embassy Frida Johansson. And we are thankful to Memphis Wood Fire Grills for lending us a pelletgrill to use so we can cook the best lamb and pork the guests have ever had. And they will be Badassboosted of course. It was also very cool to see the list of companies supporting the event. It feels like Big Swede BBQ has finally found its place among Swedish companies. Big Thank you to Johan Marcus - President of SACC-USA for making this happen!!   Big Swede BBQ will team up with Green Mountain Grills, Grillhouse and SmokedOut BBQ for two huge BBQ events in Sweden in May. First, we will demonstrate the new Prime models at Grillmässan in Stockholm between May 24 and 26 and then, we will visit Elmia Game Show the following weekend. We are looking forward to tons of visitors, plenty of good food and a lot of interest for the new Daniel Boone Prime and Jim Bowie Prime grills.
Big Swede BBQ and Memphis Wood Fire Grills has initiated a partnership around Cooking Videos using the Memphis Grills. The initial contract is for one year and Big Swede BBQ will provide 11 videos showcasing the full functionality of the Memphis Wood Fire Grills. To watch these videos, subscribe to Memphis Wood Fire Grills YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC13uO6x856wUP4E956JSxuQ Memphis Wood Fire Grills prides itself on innovation, craftsmanship, and dedication to customer satisfaction. They create grills that enhance lifestyles and personal comfort while utilizing natural, renewable fuel. By designing, engineering, and manufacturing high-performance products (including Memphis Wood Fire Grill pellets), they incorporate convenience into everyday life. Memphis Wood Fire Grills offers three distinct ways to cook. First off, pellet grills let you do traditional smoked BBQ without the time or hassle of lighting a fire and then waiting for it to settle down – there is no fussing with air vents or adding coal, just push a button and get real wood smoke at a consistent temperature. On the Memphis Wood Fire Grills, however, the same pellet firebox that uses a digital controller to hold a precise “low and slow” smoking temp of 180°-275° can grill and sear at more than 700°. But it is the addition of a dual fan convection cooking system that sets Memphis Wood Fire Grills apart from the pellet grill competition, letting you bake, roast chicken like on a rotisserie but without the moving parts, and do all the things a convection oven can do in the kitchen. It also has a unique dual hopper system, found on very few pellet grills, that lets you use two different types of wood pellets (oak, hickory, pecan, mesquite, etc.) simultaneously, creating custom smoke blends Memphis Wood Fire Grills are available as a built-in or a stand-alone unit, they have an innovative all-in-one design crafted from heavy-duty stainless steel and features a computer-controlled thermostat, dual convection fans for roasting or baking, and a Wi-Fi remote control.  The Big Swede BBQ Badass Pork Boost and Badass Veggie Boost will be shipped from Old World Spices on February 1st. This means that they will both be available online from the 7th of February. We will make them available as soon as we get them. Big Swede BBQ Badass Pork Boost will give your pork a perfect balance between sweet and heat. It is a serious competition grade rub that will have people eating high off the hog and porking out on that delicious swine, whether it is ribs, butts, steaks, chops or a whole hog. Big Swede BBQ Badass Veggie Boost is a bold and flavorful rub for vegetables with a perfect balance of fresh herbs and savory flavors. It will elevate roasted, grilled or smoked vegetables and make “Eat your veggies” not a punishment, but a reward.
Big Swede BBQ will soon be launching two additional rubs - we are expecting them to be in stock by late January 2019. Big Swede BBQ Badass Pork Boost will give your pork a perfect balance between sweet and heat. It is a serious competition grade rub that will have people eating high off the hog and porking out on that delicious swine, whether it is ribs, butts, steaks, chops or a whole hog. Big Swede BBQ Badass Veggie Boost is a bold and flavorful rub for vegetables with a perfect balance of fresh herbs and savory flavors. It will elevate roasted, grilled or smoked vegetables and make “Eat your veggies” not a punishment, but a reward. Stay tuned for more updates...  Old World has been a custom blender and bottler of BBQ rubs for many well recognized names found across the country. So it seemed a natural conclusion to bring all of these award winning flavors together for one stop shopping, saving buyers time and money while offering one of the widest selections of championship winning products.
To buy our rubs wholesale through Old World Spices, visit their website: https://wholesale.oldworldspices.com/  At the KCBS competition in Payson Arizona, All About Smoking Q, placed tied for first but lost the coin flip in the chicken category using the Big Swede BBQ Badass Bird Boost. We were excited to hear the news because we knew that the rub is awesome in backyard cooks, but now also proven at a KCBS competition. And to make us even more proud, the competition had 40 of the best pitmasters in the nation competing so the rub clearly is legit.
9/24/2018 Our rubs have been selected for the Championship product line by Old World SpicesRead Now
Old World Spices & Seasonings is a premier manufacturer of custom blended, custom packaged, dry food products and seasonings. Owned and operated by the Jungk family, their combined three generations of experience in the food industry have garnered praise, awards, and reliance from food and marketing companies across North America and Europe. With state-of-the-art Research and Innovation lab in Overland Park, Kansas to support the production facility in Concordia, MO, Old World provides high end service to a wide variety of food related industries. Old World Spices & Seasonings has a customer base of more than 1,500 accounts that are distributed across the entire United States and Canada and produces private label blends that are being exported around the world. Besides selling rubs to retail stores like Ace Hardware and Cabela's - they also run www.bbqspot.com. BBQSpot.com is one of the premier online store for BBQ rubs in the US - and from October 1st, Big Swede BBQ Badass BBQ Boost will be featured as a part of their Championship Rub Product Line.  |
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